How to protect your paddle blade with tape

This week, David "DJ" John from down in Melbourne put together a fantastic How-To on taping up the blade of your paddle with nothing more than a roll of electrical tape. The simple, yet very effective method not only protects your blade from scratches and nicks, but also the rail of your board, your toes, other people's toes and the deck of your board as well.

While adding a full strip of rail tape down the rail of your stand up paddle board is also great protection from nicks and chips you'll inevitably make, the paddle rarely see's any protection. Some brands have made these big, ugly looking plastic tubes that go right around the outside, but these not only disturb the water flow around your blade, they look a little ugly and cost heaps.